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Re: Standard library Help

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On 7/11/2014 4:53 AM, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
> On 07/11/2014 10:32 AM, Nicholas Cannon wrote:
>> Hey i would like to know alot more about the standard library and all
>> of its functions and so on and i know it is huge and i would basically
>> like to learn only the useful stuff that i could use and all of those
>> features. i have been looking around and i cant really find anything
>> so i wondering if you guys would know any places to learn it.
>>
>
> Consult the documentation:
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html
>
> It's probably the only place that has everything documented.
> Instead of reading everything from A-Z though, the more typical approach
> is to skim through it to know what is available, then read in-depth the
> parts that seem useful for a concrete problem you're trying to solve
> currently. In my experience, a thorough understanding of most chapters
> doesn't come with reading alone, but with practice.

I recommend reading and becoming familiar with the first five sections 
first. You won't get far without the Built-in types and functions. list, 
dict, set, open, etc., are not in a "library", per se, as other 
languages usually define it, but that's where they're described in 
Python's docs.

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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Standard library Help Nicholas Cannon <nicholascannon1@gmail.com> - 2014-07-11 01:32 -0700
  Re: Standard library Help marco.nawijn@colosso.nl - 2014-07-11 01:40 -0700
  Re: Standard library Help Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-11 08:41 +0000
  Re: Standard library Help Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-11 18:50 +1000
  Re: Standard library Help Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-07-11 10:53 +0200
  Re: Standard library Help "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-07-11 08:51 -0400

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